过去一周我一直在读伯纳德·诺克斯（Bernard Knox）的《古代与现代散文》（Essays Ancient and Modern）。在自传性质的引言中，他写到自己在二战期间接受潜入德军后方训练的经历，其中还包括一位保险箱开锁大师教的课，那位大师当时还是佩ントン维尔监狱的囚犯……
In the past week I have been reading _Essays Ancient and Modern_ by Bernard Knox. In the autobiographical introduction, he writes of being trained for infiltration behind German lines in WW II, including a class with a master safe cracker, then an inmate of Pentonville…
……伊曼纽尔·康德的《未来形而上学导论》（初读多年后的重读——再次深刻体会到德语翻译能烂到什么地步，挺有意思的），伯纳德·诺克斯的《古代与现代散文》（Essays Ancient and Modern）
…Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Can Be Considered As a Science, Immanuel Kant (reread many years after the first reading--interesting to be reminded how awful translations from German can be) Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard Knox
我最近买了一本伯纳德·诺克斯的《古代与现代散文》（Essays Ancient and Modern）。在引言文章中，他提到在意大利北部的一场战斗中躲在一栋房子里避难，随手翻开一本维吉尔的诗集随意探寻，发现的不是对未来的预言，而是一段出奇切题的……
I have recently purchased a copy of Bernard Knox's Essays Ancient and Modern. In the introductory essay, he speaks of shelter in a house during a battle in northern Italy and making his own random probe into a Virgil, finding not a prophecy of the future, but a curiously apropos…
…a bound copy of Virgil and opened it to a section of the first Georgic that begins, “Here right and wrong are reversed; so many wars in the world, so many faces of evil.” Professor Knox recalled, in “Essays Ancient and Modern,” “These lines, written some 30 years before the birth of Christ, expressed, more directly and passionately than any modern statement I knew of, the reality of the world I was living in: the shell-pocked,…
那个时代全世界最重要的拉丁学者？这口气真不小。我记得伯纳德·诺克斯收录在《古代与现代散文》（Essays Ancient and Modern）中的文章《隐秘的现代》（Closet Modern）提到，豪斯曼（Housman）的研究无论质量如何，主要研究的都是一位受众极为有限的作家。不过豪斯曼能从挂科的阴影中走出来也是件好事。乔纳森·斯威夫特当年的考试成绩也烂得一塌糊涂，……
The most important Latin scholar in the world at that time? That is quite a claim. My recollection from Bernard Knox's essay "Closet Modern", collected in Essays Ancient and Modern is that Houseman's work, whatever its quality, was primarily on an author of limited interest. But good for Houseman recovering from bilged examinations. Jonathan Swift did terribly on his examinations,…
过去一周我一直在读伯纳德·诺克斯（Bernard Knox）的《古代与现代散文》（Essays Ancient and Modern）。在自传性质的引言中，他写到自己在二战期间接受潜入德军后方训练的经历，其中还包括一位保险箱开锁大师教的课，那位大师当时还是佩ントン维尔监狱的囚犯……
In the past week I have been reading _Essays Ancient and Modern_ by Bernard Knox. In the autobiographical introduction, he writes of being trained for infiltration behind German lines in WW II, including a class with a master safe cracker, then an inmate of Pentonville…
……伊曼纽尔·康德的《未来形而上学导论》（初读多年后的重读——再次深刻体会到德语翻译能烂到什么地步，挺有意思的），伯纳德·诺克斯的《古代与现代散文》（Essays Ancient and Modern）
…Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Can Be Considered As a Science, Immanuel Kant (reread many years after the first reading--interesting to be reminded how awful translations from German can be) Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard Knox
我最近买了一本伯纳德·诺克斯的《古代与现代散文》（Essays Ancient and Modern）。在引言文章中，他提到在意大利北部的一场战斗中躲在一栋房子里避难，随手翻开一本维吉尔的诗集随意探寻，发现的不是对未来的预言，而是一段出奇切题的……
I have recently purchased a copy of Bernard Knox's Essays Ancient and Modern. In the introductory essay, he speaks of shelter in a house during a battle in northern Italy and making his own random probe into a Virgil, finding not a prophecy of the future, but a curiously apropos…
……一本精装的维吉尔诗集，翻到了《农事诗》（Georgic）第一卷的一节，开篇是：“在此处，是非颠倒；世间战火纷飞，邪恶面目众多。”诺克斯教授在《古代与现代散文》中回忆道：“这些写于基督降生前约 30 年的诗句，比我所知的大多数现代言论都更加直接、强烈地表达出了我当时所处的世界现实：弹坑累累的……
…a bound copy of Virgil and opened it to a section of the first Georgic that begins, “Here right and wrong are reversed; so many wars in the world, so many faces of evil.” Professor Knox recalled, in “Essays Ancient and Modern,” “These lines, written some 30 years before the birth of Christ, expressed, more directly and passionately than any modern statement I knew of, the reality of the world I was living in: the shell-pocked,…
那个时代全世界最重要的拉丁学者？这口气真不小。我记得伯纳德·诺克斯收录在《古代与现代散文》（Essays Ancient and Modern）中的文章《隐秘的现代》（Closet Modern）提到，豪斯曼（Housman）的研究无论质量如何，主要研究的都是一位受众极为有限的作家。不过豪斯曼能从挂科的阴影中走出来也是件好事。乔纳森·斯威夫特当年的考试成绩也烂得一塌糊涂，……
The most important Latin scholar in the world at that time? That is quite a claim. My recollection from Bernard Knox's essay "Closet Modern", collected in Essays Ancient and Modern is that Houseman's work, whatever its quality, was primarily on an author of limited interest. But good for Houseman recovering from bilged examinations. Jonathan Swift did terribly on his examinations,…